Re: Xwindow help needed
On 15 Jan 2000, Steve Winston wrote:
> Xwindows still doesn't work. It won't install, and
> startx no longer exists. Somehow, I have Xfree86 3.3.6
> instead of 3.3.5.
> I had to reinstall debian after win98 on the same disk
> crashed. Anyway, I reinstalled Debian (slink), did
> apt-get update and ended up with Xfree86 3.3.6 to my
> surprise. When i tried to install and configure, I got
> numerous error messages. Among these are:
> "Cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid"
> "Errors encountered while processing xterm
> dpkg --configure returned error
> exit status 1"
> I have also gotten numerous error messages saying
> "exit status 100."
> It did install correctly once, but I got only a gray
> screen that I shut down after a minute per instructions
> in the Oreilly debian book.
> Help, help, steve w
>
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I'm having similar trouble.... from what I can tell in the 3.3.6 slink
xfree86 update xbase-clients and xserver-common conflict. (which means as
far as I can tell with my very brief experience with x and debian packages
that I can have my clients or my server but not both_
I've sent an email to Vincent asking what's up and reinstalled 3.3.5 (now
to get everything working again :( )
-Alice
momentarily x-less
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